34 Facts About Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick is an American filmmaker.

Terrence Malick made his feature film debut with the crime drama Badlands, followed by the romantic period drama Days of Heaven, which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

Terrence Malick then directed the World War II epic The Thin Red Line, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the historical romantic drama The New World, and the experimental coming-of-age drama The Tree of Life, for which he was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or.

Terrence Malick has frequently collaborated with Emmanuel Lubezki, who served as the director of photography on seven of his films.

Terrence Malick's films explore themes such as transcendence and conflicts between reason and instinct as well as nature versus nurture.

Terrence Malick's style has polarized scholars and audiences; many praise his films for their lavish cinematography and aesthetics, but others fault them for lacking plot and character development.

Terrence Malick's work has nonetheless ranked highly in retrospective decade-end and all-time polls.

Terrence Malick is the son of Irene and Emil A Malick, a geologist.

Terrence Malick's paternal grandparents were of Assyrian descent from Urmia, while his mother was an Irish Catholic.

Terrence Malick attended St Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, while his family lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Larry Terrence Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with Andres Segovia in the late 1960s.

Terrence Malick received a Rhodes Scholarship, which he used to study philosophy at Oxford University's Magdalen College.

Terrence Malick wrote articles for Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Life.

Terrence Malick started his film career after earning an MFA from the brand-new AFI Conservatory in 1969, directing the short film Lanton Mills.

Terrence Malick wrote early uncredited drafts of Dirty Harry and Drive, Terrence Malick Said, and is credited with the screenplay for Pocket Money.

Terrence Malick co-wrote The Gravy Train under the pseudonym David Whitney.

Terrence Malick raised half the budget by approaching people outside of the industry, including doctors and dentists, and by contributing $25,000 from his personal savings.

Billy Weber and Terrence Malick spent two years editing it, during which they experimented with unconventional editing and voice-over techniques once they realized the picture they had set out to make would not fully work.

Jack Fisk, a longtime production designer on Terrence Malick's films, has said Terrence Malick was shooting film during this time as well.

Terrence Malick returned to directing in 1997 with The Thin Red Line, released two decades after his previous film.

Terrence Malick accepted and produced a screenplay focused on Guevara's failed revolution in Bolivia.

Terrence Malick left the Guevara project in March 2004, and Soderbergh took over as director, leading to the film Che.

Terrence Malick was seen directing Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at the Fun Fun Fun Fest on November 4,2011.

Concurrent with these two features, Terrence Malick continued work on an Imax documentary, Voyage of Time, that examines the birth and death of the known universe.

Terrence Malick has said that, compared to his more recent films, with A Hidden Life he had "repented and gone back to working with a much tighter script".

On June 7,2019, Terrence Malick reportedly started shooting his next film, code-named The Last Planet, near Rome, Italy.

Michaels said that in all of American cinema, Terrence Malick is the filmmaker most frequently "granted genius status after creating such a discontinuous and limited body of work".

Terrence Malick makes use of broad philosophical and spiritual overtones, such as in the form of meditative voice-overs from individual characters.

Terrence Malick highlighted Malick's use of "rambling philosophical voiceovers; the placid images of nature, offering quiet contrast to the evil deeds of men; the stunning cinematography, often achieved with natural light; the striking use of music".

From 1970 to 1976, Terrence Malick was married to Jill Jakes.

In 1985 in France, he married Michele Marie Morette, whom he met in Paris in 1980; in 1996, Terrence Malick asked for a divorce, which was granted.

Since at least 2011, Terrence Malick has lived in Austin, Texas.

Terrence Malick has received three Academy Award nominations; two for Best Director, for The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life, and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for the former film.

Terrence Malick was awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival for The Thin Red Line, and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival for The Tree of Life.